Property market
The five-year median is £123,500 from 12 recorded sales in LE3 5ER. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Leicester is £228,618 in June 2026, up 1.7% year on year.
LE3 5ER
Fosse · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE3 5ER
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE3
- Postcode sector
- LE3 5
- Latitude
- 52.640433
- Longitude
- -1.151380
- British National Grid easting
- 457,521
- British National Grid northing
- 305,079
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Fosse · E05010466
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester West · E14001328
- Output area
- E00069057
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 016C · E01013683
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 016 · E02002842
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore LE3
Property
84 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| St Nicholas Apartments, 140b, 4, Fosse Road North, Leicester, LE3 5ER | 24 June 2026 | £135,000 |
| St Nicholas Apartments, 140b, 22, Fosse Road North, Leicester, LE3 5ER | 2 December 2025 | £82,000 |
| 110, Fosse Road North, Leicester, LE3 5ER | 28 March 2025 | £180,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 125
- Primary
- 79
- Secondary
- 16
- 309 m
Fosse Mead Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 535 m
Brook Mead Academy
Free schools
- 573 m
Castle Mead Academy
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12,475
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,013
- Shoplifting 1,618
- Public order 1,483
- Other theft 1,002
- Anti social behaviour 987
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 108
- Postcode households
- 44
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- LE3 5 residents
- 7,557
44 female, 64 male
Age bands in LE3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 20.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 38.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 17.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 5.5%
1,572 residents
1,827 residents
3,350 residents
1,548 residents
481 residents
This postcode contained 1.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE3 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
53
within 5 km straight-line
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE (DR H MUKADAM)
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 334 FOSSE ROAD NORTH, LEICESTER, LE3 5RR
ODS code C82086
416 m
GROBY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE (ID PATCHETT)
9 GROBY ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 9ED
ODS code C82005
439 m
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
1.0 km
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
1.1 km
LEICESTER CITY ASSIST PRACTICE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code Y00344
1.1 km
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
1.1 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
1.3 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
1.3 km
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
1.4 km
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
1.5 km
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
1.5 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
1.8 km
MANOR PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
122 PARKER DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE4 0JF
ODS code C82018
1.9 km
THE PARKS MEDICAL CENTRE (B HAINSWORTH)
340 AIKMAN AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 9PW
ODS code C82610
1.9 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
2.0 km
BEAUMONT LODGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 BAXTERS CLOSE, BEAUMONT LEYS, LEICESTER, LE4 0QR
ODS code C82094
2.1 km
BRANDON SURGERY DR R KAPUR & PARTNER
BELGRAVE HEALTH CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82671
2.2 km
COSSINGTON PARK SURGERY
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82107
2.2 km
MERRIDALE MEDICAL CENTRE (RP TEW)
MERRIDALE MEDCIAL CENTRE, 5 FULLHURST AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 1BL
ODS code C82073
2.4 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
2.4 km
Showing 20 of 53 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Beatrice Road
BCT · Newfoundpool
- 0.1 miles
Beatrice Road
BCT · Newfoundpool
- 0.1 miles
Fosse Road North
BCT · Newfoundpool
- 0.1 miles
Fosse Road North
BCT · Newfoundpool
- 0.1 miles
Pool Road
BCT · Newfoundpool
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 016C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,648 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 6
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
125 open schools are in scope, including 79 primary and 16 secondary schools. Fosse Mead Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 309 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
12,475 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,039.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,013 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.